It appears that an old /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf was not being removed and the installation of tetex-bin would not overwrite it. I'm not sure if this was my fault or if I tried to do a normal upgrade and it went wrong. ( i did use apt once without sufficient disk space, and this broke a lot of stuff)
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote: > > I sent a message to the maintainer , but haven't heard back. > Is this something broken on my system ? I tried forcing removal > of all my tetex packages and reinstalling. > I get this when trying to install tetex-bin . > > Setting up tetex-bin (0.9-5) ... > /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in > texmf.cnf. > dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > tetex-bin > E: Sub-process returned an error code > homey 55 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]